Well, I get impressive results with Kiro [0] by AWS. It's specs-based but takes a lot longer than just generating a whole working program with a single prompt. GitHub has their Spec Kit [1] and there's OpenSpec [2] now, so, things will get better.
> Remember how in October and in March I told you that vibe coding — in the sense of amateurs using large language models to write code to “build products that would have previously required teams of engineers”
I don't think there's an agreed upon definition for what vibe coding is - but certainly the "amateur" portion of this sentence is _not_ a requirement to be vibe coding. Vibe coding can be done with success by skilled developers with existing experience.
But sure, change the goal posts for your catchy clickbait article title.
a potential speculation: those that used these tools are now satisfied with fewer tokens as models get better? I'm using only haiku now and it serves my needs better than opus did only 4 months ago!
